# Best Way to Retrieve Item from Munich Airport? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365 "2010-09-28T16:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/1 "2010-09-28T16:55:44Z")
Recently I flew back to San Francisco from Istanbul and had a plane change in Munich, Germany. Unfortunately I left my Kindle in the seatback pocket and didn’t realize until it was too late to return without missing my connection. Fortunately, the flight crew found it and handed it off to Munich’s Lost and Found people. Unfortunately, they tell me they can’t ship it to me. I have to arrange for someone/some service to come get it and have them ship it to me. I’ve never needed to do anything like that, so any thoughts on the best way to get an unpackaged item picked up, packaged, and shipped to me? At a cost that doesn’t make it better for me to just upgrade to the Kindle 3? ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/2 "2010-09-28T20:39:29Z")
to have another Doper who’ll be flying out of Munich next week pick up your Kindle and bring it on his flight to the US. If my arrival at the airport isn’t delayed, I should be able to retrieve it. FedEx or US Mail can get it the rest of the way to you in San Francisco. I promise I’ll put it in my backpack and not take it out! PM me for arrangements. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/3 "2010-09-28T20:48:37Z")
Wow, that would be incredibly nice of you. I’ll confirm with them that I can release it to be picked up by an individual and PM you. ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/4 "2010-09-28T21:14:49Z")
Fingers crossed. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/5 "2010-09-29T01:36:15Z")
This sounds like the beginning of either a spy novel, or a locked-up-in-Turkish-prison-for-agreeing-to-transport-stranger’s-belongings novel. ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/6 "2010-09-29T01:58:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > This sounds like the beginning of either a spy novel, or a locked-up-in-Turkish-prison-for-agreeing-to-transport-stranger’s-belongings novel. obfusciatrist, the girl knows too much. You know what to do… ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/7 "2010-09-29T02:46:40Z")
Why, yes, there is just the one copy of post #5, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![constanze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@constanze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/constanze)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/8 "2010-09-29T16:18:31Z")
Tell us if it worked. If not you could PM me. ---
**Author:** ![QuanSu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c37758/32.png) [@QuanSu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuanSu)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/9 "2010-09-29T18:44:01Z")
Has anyone seen **needscoffee** today? ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/10 "2010-09-29T18:54:13Z")
The chair is against the wall and John has a long mustache. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/11 "2010-09-29T18:56:47Z")
But wouldn’t you then be violating the rule of taking something on the plane that someone you didn’t know has given to you? Man, you are sooooooooooooo going to be stripped searched at security… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/12 "2010-09-29T19:30:30Z")
Which may have been the idea in the first place. **Caractacus** may be making a couple of new friends as we [del]speak[/del] type. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/13 "2010-09-29T19:36:21Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > But wouldn’t you then be violating the rule of taking something on the plane that someone you didn’t know has given to you? Man, you are sooooooooooooo going to be stripped searched at security… Should I be afraid to google “Kindle Bomb” ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/14 "2010-09-29T20:49:54Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > But wouldn’t you then be violating the rule of taking something on the plane that someone you didn’t know has given to you? Man, you are sooooooooooooo going to be stripped searched at security… I’ll make sure to wear my “Home of the Whopper!” t-back thong! ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/15 "2010-10-05T06:49:04Z")
Mission half-accomplished! Kindle is in my possession. It’s not in the US yet–I’m writing this from the “Cabin Found” office. **Surly Chick** , I haven’t checked in yet. If you don’t hear from me in the next day or so, you’ll know they confiscated the Kindle and me. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/16 "2010-10-05T10:57:17Z")
> [@Surly\_Chick](#): > > But wouldn’t you then be violating the rule of taking something on the plane that someone you didn’t know has given to you? Man, you are sooooooooooooo going to be stripped searched at security… I’ve seen people look all thoughtful at that question and go “well, I don’t really know the nice lady from whom I bought these magazines at the newsstand, will that be a problem?” My mother says the greatest advantage of being officially an Old Lady is that she can pull shit like that and have the other person knuckle down rather than berate her for being a smartass. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/17 "2010-10-05T14:03:39Z")
Do they still ask those questions in European airports? In the US, at least, they’ve stopped doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/18 "2010-10-05T14:21:50Z")
Last time I was in Europe they did. But that was a year ago. Good luck, **Caractacus**. I hope they use lots of lube during the cavity search… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/19 "2010-10-05T14:28:24Z")
Oh yes, they still ask them. Pretty silly, as some of them are things that 99% of Spaniards travelling to visit relatives would have to submit to a bodysearch for. “Do you have something which was given to you? Do you have anything you did not package yourself?” Well, yeah, I’m bringing half a dozen care packages, d’oh. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-way-to-retrieve-item-from-munich-airport/555365/20 "2010-10-05T19:48:50Z")
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